New pictures up:

From November

From Thanksgiving

Great Josh quotes from the weekend:

"mmm, this is good, what is it?

It's sparkling cider (Chris)

yum, it tastes like beer."


"God is in my tummy, helping it feel better."


(this was while we were painting, and he was painting Jesus)

"I forgot his bum, I need to paint his bum"


Jack was fussing a lot, and jokingly I said I was going to throw him out the window, this was Josh's response:

"NO! don't do that, because then I won't have a brother and Jack will be lost."


I don't know where the kid comes up with this stuff.

A couple cute Josh stories, and new pictures.

Story 1:
We had been running errands and Josh had being rather difficult. I put him in the car, and told him he was going to be in big trouble when we got home. He got in his seat and was rather quiet for a little bit as we headed home. After a minute he piped up and said "mommy, I prayed to God and Jesus and asked them to help me not get in trouble." We had to have a bit of theological discussion after that one.

Story 2:
We were hanging out in the family room, and Josh started talking about his friends. He jabbered on for a little bit about them, and then I asked him who his best friend was. Without hesitation he replied "Jack".

Pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67101&l=dbe19&id=503538528
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67351&l=058f5&id=503538528

New pictures up here

We have been so blessed to find an amazing new church that we love! It has so many things about it that we really enjoy, amazing music and worship, very friendly people, awesome teaching from the word that is applicable to the modern day culture, and so much more.
One of the things we have been surprised by is the amount of incredibly creative people they have serving. Every couple of week they produce a video to correspond with the point of the message. Not only are they brilliant, but they are hilarious. See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPv9sUiD54o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42GDhHR_X3w

I would just like to say that Connecticut's high is going to be Georgia's low. Oh the difference a few months can make!

We still love it here, we have joined a small group at church and are really enjoying that. I found out about a women's bible study through it, that I am going to be joining up with. I am down right giddy with excitement!

Seriously, to think that 2-3 months ago the socialization that we have had in the last week was more than we had nearly the entire 2 years in CT. I am definitely feeling overwhelmed by the blessings God has bestowed upon us all at once.

Crazy to think how different things would have been if we would have pushed ahead with the STL move we wanted a while back. I really feel like our obedience in staying is being rewarded.

In other news, I put up new pics. Enjoy!

Josh's moment of the day:

He knocked a bunch of pictures that I had been organizing off the desk, he stood back and looked at them, put his hands on his hip and said "that is not a good deal". I started to give him a look, and get on to him (since I had been telling him not to play around them) and he looked at me before I had a chance and said "pick those up" talking to himself, and proceeded to pick them all up.

Apparently college football is kind of a big deal down here is the South. Actually that's an understatement. It's pretty much a way of life. People won't talk to neighbors who root for an opposing team, and it seems like every car, mailbox, or front stoop has some sort of sign clearly establishing who they pull for.

Now I consider myself someone who knows quite a bit about sports, and can hang with the boys in conversations dealing with such, but when it comes to this I am a fish out of water. I am going to have to do some educating.

Especially since my husband has decided it's interesting enough to make a 3+ hour drive and stay overnight to have the opportunity to see a University of Georgia game. Apparently you have to go all the way to South Carolina (not all the way, we're only about an hour or so from the border..) to see a game, since they are sold out here for every game, or go for about $150. All I can think about is the seats that we could have at Busch Stadium for that. Hopefully he has fun with the guys, and hopefully Georgia wins (seriously, Bulldogs vs. the Gamecocks???).

Since Georgia is the number 2 ranked team in the nation, the game will be broadcast on CBS, so I think I will watch some of it to brush up on my Georgia knowledge, since I think I am going to have to be jumping on that bandwagon. Until they play Mizzou!

Go 'Dawgs!

New pictures are here!

A terrible thing happened this weekend. To make a long story short, I was fiddling with the controls on the camera and trying to adjust the aperture, and accidentally erased two weeks worth of pictures off of my camera.

Now I know to most of you this may seem like a silly thing to be so upset about, but none the less, I was upset enough to get myself to the verge of tears.

Two weeks at this stage of life for Jack is a lot to miss out on. There are also not a whole lot of pictures that get taken with my boys and I and I had two really good ones on there. Plus Jack had his first round of shots, and I had picture of the little band aids on his legs. They were tweety bird ones. I also had some really cute ones of him grinning, and of Josh holding him.

Plus we went to this festival, Celebrate Freedom, where 18 different singers and bands performed. They had the Chick Fil A cows there, and I had a bunch of pictures of Josh with them, and one of the DJ's let him get on her golf cart with the cows, and we had a picture of that.

It really is very tragic. But, all that to say, if you are feeling a need for pictures, I am sorry, but you will just have to wait until I build up enough to upload again. I also wouldn't recommend asking me about it. It's kind of a sore subject...

Today is Jack's 2 month birthday. Madness.

Crazy to think that we have pretty much officially pulled it all off, having a baby, moving, getting unpacked, getting everything done for the wedding and being there, and the most difficult time period of having a new baby.

I feel most accomplished in that I can get the grocery shopping done with both of them in under an hour!

I was finally able to get the video that I made for Kristin's rehearsal dinner uploaded. So here it is, I think it is my best yet.

I also was able to figure out how to upload the one that I did for Arnold's 50th birthday party (like a year ago). I would have had it up sooner but dumb YouTube doesn't allow videos over 10 minutes. Thankfully facebook Video does, so here is that video too.

Here are some pictures from the trip and wedding:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=53918&l=e395d&id=503538528

Here are some more pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=50865&l=69a42&id=503538528

We leave for STL tomorrow.

Our house was struck with a plague this past week, so hopefully we will all be healthy by then!

More updates and pictures after that.

Hooray, we officially have all of our boxes unpacked! Now this does by no means mean that everything has it's place and is organized, but at least we have no more boxes. Other than the blocking of our entire front entry way by the mound of them waiting to be picked up by the moving company, but they are empty so they don't count!

In other news, our computer is finally working somewhere other than the floor, thanks to Chris's technical genius, so I have finally been able to upload some pictures. Here is the link:


http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=48513&l=7eb81&id=503538528

Sorry for the delay in an update! We have been VERY busy and have a had a lot of things come up that we needed to take care of. Plus we just now have internet, that has been a headache in of itself.

Everything has gone well, we are here are fairly settled. Only a dozen or so more boxes left to unpack, but lots of organizing to do. We love our new house! It's great. It has an amazing view, is peaceful, and has an amazing back yard. Not to mention to squeaky floors, no leaky basements, doorknobs that work and have handles on them, a 2 car garage, our own bathroom with double sinks, a garbage disposal, and so much more!

We also love Atlanta. We are 10 minutes from EVERYTHING! Just about any restaurant or store you can imagine. The people are so friendly and nice, and we totally ran into Matt Redman in Target. I don't think life can get any better. So far the only down side is that we may be gaining weight here. We've had Chick-Fil-A like 5 time since last Saturday, and are still not sick of it yet. We've had Longhorn, and Krispy Kreme, and there are lots more to try, although now that I have my kitchen in functioning order those will be special treats.

So everything is going well, and I will try to post some more pictures soon. There also may be a special post coming about the AMAZINGNESS of our Whole Foods.

The house is packed and is en route to Atlanta. So are we! We're in NJ until Saturday morning when we head out for our two day trip to our new home.

We're all pretty excited to get there. Josh said good bye to his old room and is looking forward to his new one. Jack is doing great. His keeping a schedule is helping to make the transition a lot smoother!

I cannot post any pictures until we get our computer unpack, which probably will be at the earliest the end of next week, but after that I will post more.

Will keep you all updated, happy 4th of July to all!

More pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45187&l=9eb38&id=503538528

Everyone is doing well.

Movers come tomorrow. Crazy!

So, we've been getting a lot of questions about how everything went, and I am going to use this forum to give the details. If you are not comfortable reading some birth related terms, stop reading now.

Saturday I could tell things were feeling a little different, and told Chris we should probably see if his parents could come up a day early. They arrived and we headed to dinner. I started having contractions at regular intervals on the way to dinner, but thought I would see how things went. They kept up, about 7-8 minutes apart. On the way home they jumped to about 4 minutes apart, and started getting pretty dang intense. So when we got home we packed up and headed out. We checked in about 8 pm. They checked me shortly after arriving and I was about 4 cm. I originally has intended on trying to go natural, but admittedly the pain I was feeling at 4 cm was about what I had with Josh at 9cm. Between the intense pain, and my doctors recommendation to have it in, in case the c-section became necessary, I caved.

By the time they finally got the epidural in and checked me I was at 9 cm. The nurse told me she hadn't seen contractions this close and intense in any one other than someone who was induced and on pitocin. Very comforting while I was about to pass out from the pain. I felt relief from the contractions for about 10 minutes before I started feeling a lot of pressure from the need to push. Each contraction they have you push 3 times. I did that about 6 or 7 times and he was out. He came very quickly, and because of that I experienced some major tearing. It was amazing though, such a different experience than the c-section. He came out nice and reddish purple too, unlike Josh who was blue. After a couple dozen stitches they moved us to recovery.

He was born at 12:29am was 8 pounds even and 20 1/2 inches. Since he was born in the middle of the night we didn't disturb anyone, or have anyone come until the morning. It was a nice bonding time. Josh came up in the morning to see his baby brother, and was great. He cannot stop giving him kisses and hugs and wants to be by him all the time.

We are all recovering well. Jack is a great sleeper, and nights haven't been too rough so far. I'm sore, but nothing compared to recovering from the c-section. We are feeling incredibly blessed! Now we are wrapping up loose ends and preparing for the move. The moving truck comes on Wednesday, and we leave Connecticut on Thursday. If you want to see pictures, there is a link in the post below. I may try to upload some more pictures in the next couple of days, so check back. Thank you for all of your congratulations, support and prayer! We have felt it and are very thankful.

Pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45187&l=9eb38&id=503538528

We have a baby! Jacob Matthew Kelly was born June 22 at 12:29 a.m. He was 8 lbs even and 20 1/2 inches. Jack and I are both doing well. I was able to do a VBAC so that was a huge blessing! Josh absolutely adores his baby brother and does not want to leave his side. I'm amazed at how well he seems to be doing with the transition so far. We are all doing well, and go home tomorrow. We'll try to put more updates and pictures up soon!